This is a great short documentary on one of my favorite joints in Portland. The Independent Publishing Resource Center: It’ll put a smile on yer face.
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A really cool ad for Traditional Comics, one of my favorite companies:
Read morenickname: Rebel Gear Blog 3: Rotary Cymbals/Bass Springs
This installment is a twofer. During the second day of recording nickname: Rebel’s New Rock Church of Fire record (still working on it folks), I tried an experiment to loosen everyone up. Inspired by a session that Brown Cuts Neighbors had...
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John Porcellino (creator of the longest running best comic ever: King Cat) has started distributing all the best comix by other people. Seriously cool stuff by Noah Van Sciver, Jason Martin and more. Since John basically started the idea of...
Read moreGo Read: Lady Starlight Interview
Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Colleen Martin – Lady Starlight talks to ClubPlanet about her NYC nightlife history, working with Lady Gaga and her unacceptable fashion choices.
Read moreThis Time (I’m Gonna Try it My Way) – Behind the scenes at DJShadow.com
DJ Shadow live in Chile 2006. photo by Leo Prieto. Licensed under Creative Commons In 2006 DJ Shadow dropped his most recent solo album, The Outsider, and set in motion the process of creating one of the most fully-realized and successful artist...
Read moreProfanity Hill is live!
Running a small online distro of mini comics makes me really really really appreciate a well run small online distro of comics. The inimitable Jason T. Miles (creator of Dead Ringer, available from La Mano) just started an amazing Seattle Comix...
Read moreGo Bookmark: homemade musical instruments
During at least the last two February’s, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built and blogged an instrument a day for the whole month. Ranjit works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative...
Read morenickname: Rebel Gear Blog 2: Beat Blenders
Wild Planet’s Beat Blenders nickname: Rebel · Girls of Slender Means Girls of Slender Means by WOWCOOL Picked up this pair a few years ago and did damn little with them. Finally broke them out for the “Girls of Slender...
Read moreFluke Fanzine #8
In case you missed Fluke on tour recently with Andrew Jackson Jihad, you can pick up the latest issue from me at Anno Domini’s Art of Zines show in San Jose this Friday. Published in Tucson, Arizona, 2010. 68 pages, half size, offset print...
Read morenickname: Rebel Gear Blog 1: Gemini MPX-30
The Gemini MPX-30 is a Cheap (typically under 200USD), versatile and somewhat reliable CD turntable with effects, cues, loops, etc. It has been a standby item in my house party DJ rig and a favorite tool for Hallowe’en mixes since my...
Read moreNEWAVE! Got Boinged
There is a nice little writeup of the NEWAVE! Minicomics book by the esteemed Mark Frauenfelder on today’s edition of BoingBoing. Go read that thang. NEWAVE! is now in stock and ready to ship from Amazon. UPDATE: Some photos from the...
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